Proposed S.B. No. 503
Session Year 2025
 


AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAMS.

To remove any prohibitions against a board of education establishing a program that distributes funds that follow an individual student and gives parents the freedom to choose the appropriate school for their children, and to create more opportunities for school choice in the state while not creating any additional mandates on students or their parents to participate in any public school system and not interfering with parents' right to homeschool their children.

Introduced by:
Sen. Rob Sampson, 16th Dist.

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Co-sponsors for Amendment LCO:

Bill History

 Date Action Taken
 1/13/2025Referred to Joint Committee on Education

Co-sponsors of SB-503

Rep. Craig C. Fishbein, 90th Dist.
Rep. Anne Dauphinais, 44th Dist.
Rep. Mark W. Anderson, 62nd Dist.
Rep. Karen Reddington-Hughes, 66th Dist.
Rep. Gale L. Mastrofrancesco, 80th Dist.
Rep. Joe Hoxha, 78th Dist.
Rep. Donna Veach, 30th Dist.
Rep. Brian Lanoue, 45th Dist.
Rep. Doug Dubitsky, 47th Dist.
Rep. Kurt Vail, 52nd Dist.

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